>>It seemed to bet better at first, but maybe it was just an impression.
>>In any case, now it's definitely very slow. Digging more into it,
>>I found out that part of the problem seems to be very slow writes to
>>the disk. I can reproduce tests where `dd`ing a 40MB file proceeds at
>>the ridiculous speed of about 500KB/s (tho sometimes the speed is much
>>higher).
> Using what command line?
Various, tried from/to different partitions, with different
block sizes. First saw this same issue while `strace`ing "aptitude
update", and also reproduced it with `cp`.
Stefan
